Carolyn CordonMy Personal Poetry Month
April 17th 2009 05:18
Hi everyone, April is my personal poetry month! Woo Hoo!
Early in April I read somewhere that April was National Poetry Month in the US, and I decided it could be MY Poetry Month as well, because we don't have a National Poetry Month here in Australia. Well, not yet, anyway. Important people are working on it right now, don't you worry about that.
So, with my Personal Poetry Month, I have been writing a new poem every day. That's it. Seems simple, doesn't it? But I wasn't doing that before April started. Sometimes I could go for weeks and weeks without writing a new poem. If I miss a day because I get busy doing other things, I write an extra poem or three the next day. At the moment I've written over twenty poems in April 2009, and it's only the 17th.
Are you excited yet? I'm sure I can feel your excitement from here. Well, maybe not, but I'll let you in a secret I've discovered. Because I've been focussing on quantity rather than quality, I figured most of the poems I'd be writing would be fairly ordinary. I didn't care because I just wanted to work on achieving a large body of poems to work on.
But I've re-read some of my April poems, and shown some of them to poetry friends, and the poems are turning out to be good poetry! Even rushed and scratchy first draft poems are better than some stuff I've spent hours on previously, well some of them anyway.
I think because I'm not writing with any literary ideals, I'm writing from a creative part of myself and not self-censoring anything, unless the creative part of my brain scratches something out in a rush and puts something better in.
It's almost been like automatic writing at times, and it feels almost scary but refreshing at the same time.
I'm sure you could do this for other forms of writing too, it's just that poetry, being shorter, is ideally suited to it. Maybe trying it with flash fiction - short stories of 500 words or less, would work well too.
That's it for now, I've got to have another coffee, and write my poem for the day!
Early in April I read somewhere that April was National Poetry Month in the US, and I decided it could be MY Poetry Month as well, because we don't have a National Poetry Month here in Australia. Well, not yet, anyway. Important people are working on it right now, don't you worry about that.
So, with my Personal Poetry Month, I have been writing a new poem every day. That's it. Seems simple, doesn't it? But I wasn't doing that before April started. Sometimes I could go for weeks and weeks without writing a new poem. If I miss a day because I get busy doing other things, I write an extra poem or three the next day. At the moment I've written over twenty poems in April 2009, and it's only the 17th.
Are you excited yet? I'm sure I can feel your excitement from here. Well, maybe not, but I'll let you in a secret I've discovered. Because I've been focussing on quantity rather than quality, I figured most of the poems I'd be writing would be fairly ordinary. I didn't care because I just wanted to work on achieving a large body of poems to work on.
But I've re-read some of my April poems, and shown some of them to poetry friends, and the poems are turning out to be good poetry! Even rushed and scratchy first draft poems are better than some stuff I've spent hours on previously, well some of them anyway.
I think because I'm not writing with any literary ideals, I'm writing from a creative part of myself and not self-censoring anything, unless the creative part of my brain scratches something out in a rush and puts something better in.
It's almost been like automatic writing at times, and it feels almost scary but refreshing at the same time.
That's it for now, I've got to have another coffee, and write my poem for the day!
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I use Associated Content more for articles, and I am slowly making my way toward $1.50 payout. This is a slow way to earn money, but I love writing anyway, so that's all right, I suppose.
Of course biting the bullet and getting a real job would make my husband happier, and possibly make me happier too, who can tell. I've applied for a real job, so we'll wait and see what happens.
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how wonderful that you are regularly building up your body of work!
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